I think Atapattu did too
Trivia time!
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I made a team, in the Obscure XIs thread, of players who made a pair on debut. Here it is:
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Tavare's cousin is comedian Jim Tavare. Continuing with trivia theme
Wonder if he ever used his cousin's cricketing career as part of his routine:
"What do you folks reckon would be quicker - traveling to the Moon and back or watching my cousin Chris make 100 at Lords..?" - boom boom...
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"Was watching the cricket, went outside for a coffee, came home showered and put the kettle on, watched 2 movies, then read War & Peace, left home and went traveling overseas for a few months, returned home and turned the cricket back on and my cousin Chris was still batting on 78 not out..."
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Marvan Atapattu
The textbook Sri Lankan opener had possibly the worst start to a Test career imaginable, recording scores of 0, 0, 0, 1, 0 and 0 in his first 6 innings, and didn’t pass 30 until his tenth Test match when he finally broke the shackles with his maiden century.bigfooty.com.sl would have been interesting reading around that time
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Who are the 8 players who have played 20 Tests or more who have scored more centuries than half centuries.
[Bradman 29/13, Headley 10/5, Voges 5/4, Ponsford 7/6, Walcott 15/14, Clarke 28/27, Hayden 30/29, Younis Khan 34/33]
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Yasir?!
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He meets criteria
Hmm. I’m trying not to look so I’m racking my brains to see who else might have had a belated recall to the side.
The only keepers I remember him playing with are Healy Gilchrist and one test with emery and a keeper wouldn’t have played alongside marsh anyway. I don’t think May debuted until about 86-87. Jones and boony I think debuted a year after marsh retired. So did Swervin. So did Mo.
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Greg Matthews debuted during the 1983/84 test series against Pakistan which was Rod Marsh's last test series and he was a mentor to Warne early on in his test career, they were the two spinners on the tour to Sri Lanka in 1992.
Yeah I knew he played alongside Warney early I have a feeling he even hit a century in warne’s debut test or certainly in that series at least. His problem was his batting was better than his bowling
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Just an interesting stat between Bradman and Tendulkar (in a 'what if' scenario).
Bradman played 52 tests to Tendulkar's 200. If Bradman played the same number of tests (200) and if one does the exercise to extrapolate the centuries & half centuries per tests played, Bradman would have ended up with 112 centuries and 50 half centuries.
